"You can call it cherry pie, but it's a war."

Cully Stimson, who served in the Pentagon under former President George W. Bush, on the Obama administration's refusal to use the phrase "war on terror." Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, for instance, substituted "man-caused disasters" for "terrorism" in testimony before Congress. "I would expect that she would not use that silly expression to a family member who suffered the loss of a loved one to an IED explosion," Stimson said. "Terrorists are terrorists."